(3rd Person P. O. V)
Very early in the morning Nikki and Cole were sleeping peacefully without caring about what was happening in the world while snuggling with each other. There, on the other hand, Alok enters their room in his bat form hiding his scent so that others aren’t able to know about his occurrences. He slowly walks toward Nikki and looks at her with a smirk on his face.
He bends towards her and takes a sniff of her scent and his eyes light up in delight.
“Now I understand why is that, Rogue is after want her so much, she is something special, something very special I can say that by just taking a single sniff of her, she smells so delicious so pure that it takes all of my self-control not to drink her dry, so what that rogue has told was true I guess,” he said with a chuckle.
“Sleep little girl sleep all you want until I have all of you for myself,” he said trailing one of his fingers on her face. Nikki woke up startled and started looking everywhere while panting heavily but did not find anyone.
“What happened Nikki?” Cole asks sleepily.
“Someone was here, hovering over me,” Nikki said to him, all the sleep from his eyes was gone and he had gotten into alert mode. He moved his head upward and started sniffing everywhere to find a smell that could tell him who was there but did not find any except his and Nikki’s scent.
His mind links his warrior to look all over the pack house to find something suspicious. He gets out of the bed and starts looking everywhere but finds nothing. After some time he heard the footsteps and turned with the growl and the warrior bowed down in front of him as a sign of surrender. When he saw that it was the warrior he took a large breath and calmed himself down.
“Find anything?” Cole asks them.
“No, alpha we have searched every corner of the pack house but didn’t find anything,” one of the warriors said to him. He runs his hand on his hair and turns to see a hair, a bat’s hair to be specific.
“You all can leave now,” Cole orders them and they walk away from there. Cole picks the hair from the floor and sniffs it smelling the metallic smell of blood from it… He looks everywhere when his eyes reach the bat sitting in the tree who was no other than the king vampire himself sitting on the branch of a tree and watching all the commotion happening there conforming to Cole’s doubt. As soon as his eyes saw the bat, the bat flew away from there.
“You all can leave now,” Cole orders them and they walk away from there. Cole picks the hair from the floor and sniffs it smelling the metallic smell of blood from it.
“It was…” Cole said.
“A hair of a bat, king of vampire bats hair for specific,” his father said completing his sentence.
“It means…” Cole said but was cut off by his father.
“The king of the vampire himself pays a visit here, which is not good news at all, which means you have to be even more careful,” His father said to him cutting him off.
“But why didn’t I sense his presence here, or smell him here?” Cole asks his father.
“Higher-class vampires can hide their smell and presence so that nobody can find them,” his father explains to him.
“Is there any way to protect Nikki from there?” Cole asks him.
“No, I don’t think so, I will advise you to put the web or bar in the windows and balcony so that they can not enter here in their bat form,” his father advised him.
“I will, anyway when did you come back from visiting the council?” Cole asks him.
“Just half an hour before when I was the warrior searching for god knows what and when I asked one of them they told me everything, so when I reached here I saw a bat hair in your hand and I knew it was a vampire in his bat form,” his father said to him.
“So did you find anything from them?” Cole asks him and his father shakes his head no making him sigh in frustration.
“They said they will call us or try to get in contact with us if they find anything,” his father said to him and he nodded his head in understanding.
“Okay, you should go and rest now, you must be tired from your long journey,” Cole said to his father. His father nodded his head and walked away from there. He turns around to see Nikki shaking in fear while clutching a pillow tightly to her chest. He walks toward her with a small smile on his face.
“Hey, it’s alright everything is fine, I am here to protect you, I will not let anything happen to you okay?” Cole asks while holding her in his arms and she nods her head to him. He rocks her back and front to make her fall asleep then tucks her back into the bed. He closes all the windows and doors and covers them with curtains then walks into the washroom to get fresh and start his day, not in the mood to sleep anymore.
After having a shower, he changes into fresh clothes and walks to his study room to do some packing business. He saw the clock to see it was 7:30, he was craving coffee, so he walked into the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee. After having coffee he mined link his Albert to send the warriors who were at petrol duties to come and meet him at his office to give them a piece of his mind.
After a few minutes, he heard a knock on his door.
“Come in,” he said in a hoarse voice and a warrior entered his office.
“So you guys were in the petrol duties yesterday?” Cole asked them while glaring at them and they nodded their heads while looking down at the floor in shame knowing very well what was coming in the next moments.
“So this is how you perform your duty, letting anyone pass our brooder, to come and harm us,” Cole shouted at them and they just stood there speechless.
“I am asking you something, answer me,” Cole shouted at them.
“S-so-sorry Alpha,” the warrior’s shutter in front of him.
“Sorry, my ass, Albert, take their warrior position from them, and I want you to hire new warriors who know how to perform their duties perfectly,” Cole said to Albert while glaring at the warriors.
“But Alpha they are the best warriors of our pack,” Albert argued with him.
“If these are the best warriors of our pack, then I don’t want to know how the worst warriors will be, I want highly trained and alert warriors, and any more mistakes from them or you will cost you your position Albert, am I clear,” Cole asks to him in a serious voice.
“Yes, Alpha,” Albert said looking down at the floor.
“You all are dismissed now,” Cole said to them and they walked away from there. Cole decided to go for a run to cool himself and his wolf down.